Condiments aren’t solely a summertime thing, but it would be difficult to visualize a delicious food experience in the warmer months without a bottle of classic ketchup or dish of chili sauce standing by to zhuzh things up.
But how to send off the condiment-heavy stretch in savory style? Spending some of the final days of summer feasting on burgers, those condiment-tastic icons, all while saving a few bucks sounds like a grand and filling plan.
Some of Long Beach’s best-known burgeries get us on the summer-wind-down front, and to honor the season’s big and burger-y goodbye? There is Long Beach Burger Week, which will sizzle, melt, and bun it up, with meaty and non-meaty moxie, from Sept. 13 through 20 in 2026.
This is the sixth go-around for the gourmand-beckoning bash, which has well over a dozen participants on board and a few different price points.
The costs start at $5, with $10, $15, and $20 also in the mix; if you want to go with a combo, you might encounter a multi-part meal for $25, if the burger-making place you’re visiting has gone that route.
Perusing the participants before you go, to see what will be offered during the patty-perfect week? You can, at the event site: Jimmy E’s Bar and Grill, Altar Society Brewing, The Kroft, and Parkers’ Lighthouse are all in the stack-’em-high swing.
Burger Hand Pies will be one tempting goodie, and Pupusa Burgers, too; there may be burgers for your best pal (your pup) depending on where you head. Past Long Beach Burger Weeks have made a poochly point of involving dogs in the dine-out fun.
Axiom Productions is behind the burger-tacular and Noahs’s Arc Foundation is the nonprofit partner.
Taking out is a-okay as is dining at your chosen restaurant (because of course); the week is all about sharing some of the most luscious LBC burgers with fans across the region, and giving some attention and love to the restaurants that are sending summer off in a big and flavorful way.